T. S. Eliot — a remark

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“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”

A characteristically dry observation on the demands of later life · Remark quoted in Time, 1950

About T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

26 September 1888–4 January 1965

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26 September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on 4 January 1965 in London. In the course of a life that crossed the Atlantic both literally and imaginatively, he became one of the defining writers of literary modernism: a poet whose fractured early works gave memorable form to…

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